Clifford D. Simak was a prolific science fiction writer during his life. He won numerous awards for his writing during his career, including three Hugo Awards and one Nebula Award. Simak was also made a SFWA Grand Master by the Science Fiction Writers of America, and the recipient of the Bram Stoker Award for Lifetime Achievement from the Horror Writers Association.

Simak wrote for over fifty-five years and produced some iconic science fiction works. He was born on a farm in Wisconsin and went on to become the news editor of the Minneapolis Star-Tribune. During this time, he would write science fiction in his spare time.

Publication Order of Standalone Novels

Empire (1932)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Cosmic Engineers (1950)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Time and Again / First He Died (1950)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Ring Around the Sun (1952)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Time is the Simplest Thing / The Fisherman (1961)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Trouble with Tycho (1961)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
They Walked Like Men (1962)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Way Station / Here Gather the Stars (1963)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
All Flesh Is Grass (1965)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Werewolf Principle (1967)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Why Call Them Back From Heaven? (1967)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
So Bright the Vision (1968)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Goblin Reservation (1968)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Out of Their Minds (1970)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Prehistoric Man (1971)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Destiny Doll (1972)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
A Choice of Gods (1972)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Cemetery World (1972)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Waystation (1973)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Our Children's Children (1974)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Enchanted Pilgrimage (1975)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Shakespeare's Planet (1976)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
A Heritage of Stars (1977)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Fellowship of the Talisman (1978)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Mastodonia / Catface (1978)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Visitors (1980)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Project Pope (1981)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Where the Evil Dwells (1982)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Special Deliverance (1982)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Highway of Eternity (1986)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Time Quarry (2014)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

Publication Order of The Complete Short Fiction Of Clifford D. Simak Books

I Am Crying All Inside and Other Stories (2015)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Big Front Yard and Other Stories (2015)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Ghost of a Model T and Other Stories (2015)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
No Life of Their Own and Other Stories (2016)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Grotto of the Dancing Deer and Other Stories (2016)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
New Folks' Home and Other Stories (2016)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
A Death in the House and Other Stories (2016)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Good Night, Mr. James and Other Stories (2016)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Earth for Inspiration and Other Stories (2016)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Shipshape Miracle and Other Stories (2017)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Dusty Zebra and Other Stories (2017)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Thing in the Stone and Other Stories (2017)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

Publication Order of Short Stories/Novellas

Hellhounds of the Cosmos (1932)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Street That Wasn't There (1941)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Mr. Meek Plays Polo (1944)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Project Mastodon (1955)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The World That Couldn't Be (1958)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Eternity Lost (2004)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Spacebred Generations (2009)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Second Childhood (2016)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

Publication Order of Collections

City (1952)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Worlds of Clifford Simak (1954)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Strangers in the Universe (1956)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Night of the Puudly (1960)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Other Worlds of Clifford Simak (1962)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
All the Traps of Earth and Other Stories (1962)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Aliens for Neighbours (1963)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
All the Traps of Earth (1963)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Worlds Without End (1964)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Best Science Fiction Stories of Clifford D. Simak (1965)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Over the River and Through the Woods (1965)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Skirmish (1977)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Marathon Photograph and Other Stories (1986)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Off-Planet (1988)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Brother and Other Stories (1988)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Autumn Land and Other Stories (1990)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Immigrant and Other Stories (1991)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Creator and Other Stories (1994)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Civilisation Game and Other Stories (1997)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Hellhounds of the Cosmos and Other Tales from the Fourth Dimension (2011)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Madness From Mars and Other Short Stories (2017)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Thing in the Stone: And Other Stories (2024)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books

The March of Science (1971)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

Publication Order of The Pulp Writers Books

(with Poul Anderson, Andre Norton, Alan E. Nourse, Philip K. Dick, Mack Reynolds, Raymond Z. Gallun, August Derleth, Hal K. Wells, Sewell Peaslee Wright, Arthur Dekker Savage)

Anthology of Sci-Fi V1 (By: Andre Norton) (2013)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Anthology of Sci-Fi, the Pulp Writers V1 (By: August Derleth) (2013)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Anthology of Sci-Fi V2 (By: Philip K. Dick) (2013)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Anthology of Sci-Fi V3 (By: Poul Anderson) (2013)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Anthology of Sci-Fi V4 (By: Raymond Z. Gallun) (2013)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Anthology of Sci-Fi V5 (By: Alan E. Nourse) (2013)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Anthology of Sci-Fi V6 (By: Arthur Dekker Savage) (2013)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Anthology of Sci-Fi V7 (By: H.B. Fyfe) (2013)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Anthology of Sci-Fi V5, the Pulp Writers - Alan E. Nourse (By: Alan E. Nourse) (2013)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Anthology of Sci-Fi V8 (By: ) (2013)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Anthology of Sci-Fi V9 (By: Hal K. Wells) (2013)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Anthology of Sci-Fi V10 (By: Harl Vincent) (2013)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Anthology of Sci-Fi V11 (By: Anthony Gilmore) (2013)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Anthology of Sci-Fi V12 (By: Mack Reynolds) (2013)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Anthology of Sci-Fi V13 (By: Sewell Peaslee Wright) (2013)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Anthology of Sci-Fi V15 (By: August Derleth) (2013)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Anthology of Sci-Fi V17 (By: Harl Vincent,Ralph Milne Farley,Wallace West,C.V. Tench,Lilith Lorraine,A.R. Holmes) (2013)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Anthology of Sci-Fi V18 (By: ) (2013)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Anthology of Sci-Fi V19 (By: David R. Sparks,H. Thompson Rich,Robert H. Leitfred,Will Smith,R.J. Robbins,Jackson Gee,Victor Endersby) (2013)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Anthology of Sci-Fi V20 (By: ) (2013)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Anthology of Sci-Fi V22 (By: ) (2013)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Anthology series.

Publication Order of Stellar Books

Stellar Short Novels (By: Gordon R. Dickson,Andrew J. Offutt,Judy-Lynn del Rey,Shawn Oueinsteen) (1976)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Stellar #2 (With: Isaac Asimov,Larry Niven,Howard Waldrop,Jack C. Haldeman II,Steven Utley,Hal Clement,James White,Richard S. Simak,Judy-Lynn del Rey,Patrick G. Conner) (1976)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Stellar #3 (With: Jack L. Chalker,Gene DeWeese,Jeffrey M. Wallman,Charles W. Runyon,Mildred Downey Broxon,Henry Melton,Judy-Lynn del Rey,Arsen Darney,B. Lee Cooper,Larry S. Haverkos,Steve Utley,Bill Starr) (1977)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Stellar #4 (By: Judy-Lynn del Rey) (1978)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Stellar #5 (By: Judy-Lynn del Rey) (1980)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Stellar #6 (By: Judy-Lynn del Rey) (1980)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Stellar #7 (By: Terry Carr,Leanne Frahm,Judy-Lynn del Rey) (1981)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

Publication Order of The Golden Age of Science Fiction Books

The Golden Age of Science Fiction - Volume VI (By: Robert Sheckley) (2016)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Golden Age of Science Fiction - Volume IV (By: Robert Sheckley) (2018)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Golden Age of Science Fiction - Volume X (With: James Blish,Poul Anderson,Fritz Leiber,Harry Harrison,Roger Dee,Anthony Gilmore,Robert Hoskins,Richard Rein Smith) (2018)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

Publication Order of Anthologies

Astounding Science Fiction, October 1958(1958)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Mind Partner and 8 Other Novelets from Galaxy(1961)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Novelets of Science Fiction(1963)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Alien Worlds(1964)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Microcosmic God(1965)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Tomorrow 1| Science Fiction by the Masters(1971)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Nebula Award 6(1972)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Astounding-Analog Reader, Book Two(1973)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Devil's Generation(1973)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Frontiers 1: Tomorrow's Alternatives(1973)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The John W. Campbell Memorial Anthology / Astounding(1973)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow...(1974)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Decade: The 1940's(1975)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Stellar #2(1976)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Aliens: 3 Novellas(1977)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Stellar #3(1977)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Perilous Planets(1978)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Rod Serling's Other Worlds(1978)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Best of Astounding(1979)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Analog Science Fiction, November 1979(1979)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Laughing Space: An Anthology of Science Fiction Humor(1982)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Oxford Book of Science Fiction Stories(1992)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The SFWA Grand Masters 1(1999)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Mammoth Book Of Science Fiction(2002)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Mammoth Book of Extreme Science Fiction(2006)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
More Fantastic Stories(2009)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction(2010)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Startling Stories #3(2010)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Science Fiction Gems, Vol. One(2011)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Time Travel Megapack: 26 Modern and Classic Science Fiction Stories(2013)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Anthology of Sci-Fi V21, the Pulp Writers(2013)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Best of Galaxy, Volume Two(2016)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Science Fiction Gems, Volume Twelve(2016)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Driftless Reader(2017)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Golden Age of Science Fiction - Volume XV(2018)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Golden Age of Science Fiction - Volume X(2018)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Thrilling Wonder Stories - December 1938(2018)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Space Pioneers(2018)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Born of the Sun: Adventures in Our Solar System(2020)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Nature's Warnings: Classic Stories of Eco-Science Fiction(2020)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Comet: Stories of Super Time and Space(2021)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

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Way Station takes place in the backwoods of Wisconsin where an ageless hermit is visited by aliens. Enoch is not like other humans as he never seems to age. The government has recently noticed this about him and they seek the truth about his existence. Enoch is a veteran of the American Civil War who has spent the time since operating a secret way station for aliens passing through Earth. His intergalactic guests gave him knowledge and immortality, but his gifts have made him more aware of humanity’s impending doom.

Simak’s most famous work is City. The story takes place on an Earth that has been without humans for thousands of years. Humanity left the cities for the stars and, ultimately, for oblivion. The humans left behind their most loyal companions, dogs. The dogs were granted the power of speech long ago and now the intelligent, pacifist dogs are the last keepers of human history. The dogs all live in peace, but are now facing outside threats for the first time including the most dangerous of all: a warlike race called “Man.”

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